ELA Spring Final Vocab Ch.16-30

Question 1

[n] strong dislike, opposition, or anger

Answer 1

animosity
([adj] animistic)

Question 2

[n] the quality of being honest, especially about a difficult or embarrassing subject

Answer 2

candour
([adj] candid)

Question 3

[n] agreement between people to act together secretly or illegally in order to deceive someone

Answer 3

collusion
([adj] collusive, [v] collude)

Question 4

[n] a slight guilty feeling about something you have done or might do

Answer 4

compunction
([adj] compunctious)

Question 5

[n] a model or other object that represents someone, especially one of a hated person that is hanged or burned in a public place

Answer 5

effigy
([adj] effigial)

Question 6

[n] a part of a country that is surrounded by another country; a group of people who are different from the people living in the surrounding area

Answer 6

enclave

Question 7

[n] something that is light and airy; delicate

Answer 7

ethereality
([adj] ethereal)

Question 8

[n] the fact of having no effect or of achieving nothing

Answer 8

futility
([adj] futile)

Question 9

[n] a particular life, in religions that believe that we have many lives; the appearance of a god as a human: a new or different form or condition of something

Answer 9

incarnation
([v] incarnate)

Question 10

[n] the authority of a court or official organization to make decisions and judgments

Answer 10

jurisdiction
([adj] jurisdictional)

Question 11

[n] a strong feeling of hating someone or something

Answer 11

loathing
([v] loathe)

Question 12

[n] a very slight difference in appearance, meaning, sound, etc.; quality of something that is not easy to notice but may be important

Answer 12

nuance
([adj] nuanced, [v] nuance)

Question 13

[n] strong belief in a religion that is shown in the way someone lives or behavior

Answer 13

piety
([adj] pious)

Question 14

[n] an official announcement, or the act of making it

Answer 14

proclamation
([v] proclaim)

Question 15

[n] the process of producing young animals or babies

Answer 15

procreation
([v] procreate)

Question 16

[n] a person who is easily shocked by rude things, especially those of a sexual type

Answer 16

prude
([adj] prudish)

Question 17

[n] (an act of) treating something holy or important without respect

Answer 17

sacrilege
([adj] sacrilegious)

Question 18

[n] a feeling that prevents you from doing something that you think is morally wrong or makes you uncertain about doing it; a strong belief about what is right or wrong that governs your actions

Answer 18

scruple
([v] scruple)

Question 19

[n] language or behavior that is intended to persuade other people to oppose their government, sometimes by using violence

Answer 19

sedition
([adj] seditious)

Question 20

[n] the act or process of breaking a law or moral rule, or an example of this

Answer 20

transgression
([adj] transgressive, [v] transgress)

Question 21

[v] to join or unite to form a larger organization or group, or to make separate organizations do this

Answer 21

amalgamate
([adj] amalgamate, [n] amalgamation)

Question 22

[v] to cut off a part of the body

Answer 22

amputate
([adj] amputated, [n] amputation)

Question 23

[v] to make a loud complaint or demand

Answer 23

clamour
([adj] clamorous, [n] clamor)

Question 24

[v] to accept or allow behavior that is wrong

Answer 24

condone
([adj] condonable, [n] condonation)

Question 25

[v] to make something less pure or make it poisonous

Answer 25

contaminate
([adj] contaminated, [n] contamination)

Question 26

[v] to throw something away or get rid of it because you no longer want or need it; to get rid of a card you are holding during a card game

Answer 26

discard
([adj] discarded, [n] discard)

Question 27

[v] to cover something so that it cannot be seen clearly; to make something difficult to know or understand

Answer 27

enshroud

Question 28

[v] to cover something so that it cannot be seen clearly; to make something difficult to know or understand

Answer 28

enshroud

Question 29

[v] to often repeat an idea or belief to someone until they accept it without criticism or question; to persuade someone to accept an idea by repeating it and showing it to be true

Answer 29

indoctrinate
([adj] indoctrinated, [n] indoctrination)

Question 30

[v] to allow yourself or another person to have something enjoyable, especially more than is good for you; to give someone anything they want and not to mind if they behave badly

Answer 30

indulge
([adj] indulgent, [n] indulgence)

Question 31

[v] to remove all signs of something, either by destroying it or by covering it so that it cannot be seen; to make an idea or feeling disappear completely

Answer 31

obliterate
([adj] obliterated, [n] obliteration)

Question 32

[v] to give someone special treatment, making that person as comfortable as possible and giving them whatever they want; to treat with too much kindness and attention

Answer 32

pamper
([adj] pampered, [n] pamperedness)

Question 33

[v] to speak to or behave toward someone as if they are stupid or not important; to treat others in a manner that shows you consider yourself to be better than they are

Answer 33

patronize
([n] patronage)

Question 34

[v] to steal something from a place or a person by using violence, especially during war

Answer 34

pillage
([n] pillage)

Question 35

[v] to catch and kill animals without permission on someone else’s land; to take and use for yourself dishonestly something, usually an idea, that belongs to someone else; to persuade someone who works for someone else to come and work for you

Answer 35

poach
([adj] poachable, [n] poaching)

Question 36

[v] to try to find out private facts about a person; to move or lift something by pressing a tool against a fixed point; to get something with much effort

Answer 36

pry
([adj] prying, [n] pry)

Question 37

[v] to try to find reasons to explain your behavior, decisions, etc.; to make a company, way of working, etc. more effective, usually by combining or stopping particular activities, or to become more effective in this way

Answer 37

rationalize
([adj] rationalized, [n] rationalization)

Question 38

[v] to keep or continue to have something, especially a position or money, or control of something

Answer 38

retain
([adj] retaining, [n] retention)

Question 39

[v] to criticize someone strongly, or say unpleasant things to or about someone

Answer 39

revile
([n] revile)

Question 40

[v] to save goods from damage or destruction, especially from a sunk or damaged ship or a building that has been damaged by fire or a flood; to try to make a bad situation better

Answer 40

salvage
([adj] salvageable, [n] salvage)

Question 41

[v] to make someone excited intentionally but only a little, usually with sexual images or descriptions; to cause someone to feel pleasantly excited

Answer 41

titillate
([adj] titillative, [n] titillation)

Question 42

[adj] boring, ordinary, and not original; too often used in the past and therefore not interesting

Answer 42

banal
([n] banality)

Question 43

[adj] unable to have children or young animals, not creating or producing anything new

Answer 43

barren
([n] barrenness)

Question 44

[adj] considered offensive to God or religion

Answer 44

blasphemous
([n] blasphemy, [v] blaspheme)

Question 45

[adj] having low moral standards

Answer 45

decadent
([n] decadence, decadency)

Question 46

[adj] more than you need and therefore not necessary; that can be gotten rid of

Answer 46

dispensable
([n] dispensability, dispensableness)

Question 47

[adj] not serious about a serious subject, in an attempt to be funny or to appear smart; having a rude attitude of not being serious esp. by trying to be amusing when most people expect you to be serious

Answer 47

flippant
([n] flippancy, flippantness)

Question 48

[adj] (especially of events or behavior) embarrassing because of being a complete failure

Answer 48

ignominious
([n] ignominy)

Question 49

[adj] illegal or disapproved of by society

Answer 49

illicit
([n] illicitness)

Question 50

[adj] having none of the characteristics of life that an animal or plant has

Answer 50

inanimate
([n] inanimate)

Question 51

[adj] intended to harm or upset other people esp. by hurting someone’s feelings or reputation

Answer 51

malicious
([n] malice)

Question 52

[adj] not in use anymore, having been replaced by something newer and better or more fashionable

Answer 52

obsolete
([n] obsolescence, [v] obsolete)

Question 53

[adj] unreasonably determined, especially to act in a particular way and not to change at all despite what anyone else says; unwilling to change your action despite argument or persuasion; stubborn:

Answer 53

obstinate
([n] obstinacy, [v] obstinate)

Question 54

[adj] feeling extremely nervous and worried because you believe that other people do not like you or are trying to harm you, suffering from a mental illness in which you believe that other people are trying to harm you

Answer 54

paranoid
([n] paranoia)

Question 55

[adj] tries to get something that belongs to someone else; used to describe someone who expresses sexual interest in a very obvious way

Answer 55

predatory
([n] predation)

Question 56

[adj] intended as a punishment; used to describe costs that are so high and difficult to pay

Answer 56

punitive
([n] punitiveness)

Question 57

[adj] making you feel that something bad or evil might happen

Answer 57

sinister
([n] sinisterness)

Question 58

[adj] relating to a process of change from one system, method, etc. to another

Answer 58

transitional
([n] transition)

Question 59

[adj] (behaving in) a rude, unpleasant way

Answer 59

uncouth
([n] uncouthness)

Question 60

[adj] able to work as intended or able to succeed; able to continue to exist as or develop into a living being

Answer 60

viable
([n] viability)

Question 61

[adj] used for a woman with a soft, curved, sexually attractive body; something that gives you a lot of pleasure because it feels extremely comfortable or it sounds or looks extremely beautiful:

Answer 61

voluptuous
([n] voluptuousness)